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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. [2],xvi,471pp, with 31 full-page plates from photographs. Octavo. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Spine ends faded, small smudge on top edge, pencil notes on rear free endsheet, two ink ownership inscriptions (see below) on front free endsheet, small bookplate on pastedown, but a very.....
Philadelphia. 1811. Five volumes. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Boards a bit scuffed, corners lightly worn. Spines slightly scuffed and slightly chipped on some volumes. Light scattered foxing and toning. Information about the Storer family inscribed in the first volume. About very good. An impressive early American Bible.....
"Camp Nusseerabad, India." 1859-1860. [121]pp. of manuscript text, about 15,500 total words. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Boards edgeworn and lightly rubbed. Internally quite clean, neat, and legible. Very good. An interesting unpublished manuscript, this is a novel in the form of an autobiography, purportedly written by an American-born.....
Camp at Dorchester, near Boston. January 5, 1776. [1]p. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. A letter written by Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland from the Continental Army's encampment at Dorchester Heights, outside of Boston, requesting that Gen. John Thomas allow.....
London. 1886. Two volumes. xxviii,675; xii,803pp., including several in-text maps, charts, and illustrations, plus fifteen plates (including frontispiece in second volume) and a folding colored map. Thick octavo. Original gilt pictorial cloth, spines gilt, skillfully rebacked with original backstrips laid down, new endpapers. A few scattered light fox marks. Very.....
Wilmington: Ferris Bros., Printers and Binders, 1885. [6],444pp. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front hinge expertly repaired, else a near fine copy. "These extracts from DuPont's journal and letters, privately printed for his family by his wife after his death, are a valuable and almost unknown account.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Publishers quarter vellum and boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Binding somewhat soiled and worn, former owner's bookplate, otherwise a very good copy. Cloth folding box. First edition, limited issue. One of an unknown number of out of series copies, unnumbered, in addition to 250 numbered.....
[Santa Barbara. 1925]. 285pp. Portraits. Publisher's fabrikoid. Spine slightly soiled and worn, corners lightly worn. Small private library stamps on front pastedown and titlepage verso. Light foxing on endpapers and titlepage as well as to edges of text block. Very good. Second and best edition of this privately printed book.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 190,[2]pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Small chips at spine ends and edges of wrappers. Early ownership inscription of "Adelaide Forrester" in upper margin of first text page. Very clean internally. Near fine overall. This book chronicles an exciting year by anyone's standards, the life.....
New York: Harcourt, [1956]. Cloth and boards. Top edge and endsheets slightly dust spotted, fore-tips slightly bruised, but a very good copy in spine- sunned, modestly nicked and edgeworn dust jacket. First edition. An inscribed presentation copy from the author to her daughter and son-in- law: "For Nancy and Percy.....
[Mainly Virginia, Alabama & Texas. 1857-1929]. Approximately thirty-two letters, some with original transmittal envelopes; twenty-three photographs and real photo postcards; and assorted family documents, calling cards, and greeting cards. Overall very good condition. Housed in a modern gray archival box. A wide-ranging collection of correspondence, photographs, and documents centered on.....
Albemarle County, Va. 1819-1823. [3]pp. manuscript on a folded folio sheet, docketed and with remnants of wax seal on the fourth page. Old folds, some damage to second leaf from where seal was removed, not touching text. Very good. The last will and testament of Isaac Hardin, a prominent citizen.....
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1805. 271pp., plus three maps, one chart, and one view (all but one folding). Modern calf, spine with raised bands, gilt morocco label. Light rubbing and shelf wear. Interior tanned, staining and foxing, occasional small marginal tears or paper flaws. Plates and maps loosely.....
[N.p. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, ca. 1830s]. [2]pp., printed on the first and third pages of a folded folio sheet. Old folds, lower fold just beginning to split. Very good plus. A questionnaire produced by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), directed towards new.....
Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1871. 40pp. Original self-wrappers. Minor foxing to outer leaves, light toning. Very good. A scarce political tract on women's suffrage by George A. Hickox, a Litchfield, Connecticut lawyer, newspaper editor, and women's suffrage advocate. At the time he wrote the present pamphlet Hickox was one.....
[Np: The Photographer, ca. 1963]. Original glossy double-weight gelatin silver print from negative, 11 x 14", (inclusive of margins, image size is 13 1/4 x 10 5/8"). Numbered in pencil on verso. About fine. An original print of one of the sequence of superb photographs taken by Yousuf Karsh on.....
New Orleans: Published by Rev. W. Stuart, 1848. [5]-31pp. plus four full-page plates Titlepage vignette. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light spotting. Very good. A rare account of robbery, murder, and patricide, printed in Louisiana. Copyrighted by E.E. Barclay in Ohio, this (possibly) fictional.....
Harrisburg: John Wyeth, 1798. 163pp. Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, gilt leather label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, typed description tipped onto front free endpaper. A few short closed tears at fore-edges, one larger internal tear repaired with tape. Tanned. Very good. A rare account of the first murder trial in.....
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Potosi, Mo. November 23, 1870. Letterpress broadside, 17¼ x 12 inches (44 x 30cm). Old vertical and horizontal folds. Previously framed, and text portion tanned. Slight edge wear, modern pen annotations in lower margin (beneath prior matting). Very good overall. An unrecorded, possibly unique reward broadside, printed in the immediate.....
Morrisania. August 23, 1788. [1]p. plus integral address leaf. Folio. Old fold lines. Light soiling and toning. Slight separation at some folds. About very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case. An affectionate letter written by Lewis Morris to his son, Jacob, congratulating him on the birth.....
[San Francisco?]: Daily Herald, [1869]. Single sheet, 11¼ x 7¾ inches. Printed in two columns. Old folds, minor soiling. Very good. A rare and dramatic news broadside presenting ongoing updates for one of the worst mining disasters in Nevada history. On April 6th, 1869, a methane fire caused by an.....
New York. 1866. [4],iii,[2],7pp. plus large folding table. With prospectus. Folio. Contemporary red three-quarter morocco and drab boards, spine gilt. Extremities worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Wear to edges of some leaves. Contemporary ownership notes. Good. Number 9 of ten large paper copies with the folding genealogical table, hand numbered.....
[London]. 1670. 71pp. plus errata. Small quarto. Modern red calf. Uniformly tanned and foxed. About very good. One of the most important incidents in the early life of William Penn was his trial in September 1670 on charges of unlawful assembly and disturbing the peace. He and another Quaker, William.....
"The Moorings," near Tarrytown, N.Y. February 15 and April 7, 1849. [2]; [3]pp., on folded sheets. Quarto and octavo. Old fold lines. Bottom edge of second letter with some minor paper loss, affecting a few letters of text. Very minor soiling. Very good plus. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) writes.....
[Cap Français]: De l'Imprimerie Royale de St. Domingue, [1767]. 47pp. Stitched as issued. Contemporary inscription on first page. Internally bright and clean. Near fine. An extremely rare and interesting legal brief concerning a notable family of Saint Domingue, and a very early piece of printing from the island. This is.....
